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Cookies are not worms or viruses; they are not spyware and their purpose is not to generate spam. They are only data available to the website issuers, and not to any other company, corporation or authority.
Cookies are generally used by the web servers to differentiate users and to act in different ways depending on them. Cookies were invented to be used in a virtual shopping cart, which acts as a virtual device in which users ‘place’ the elements that they wish to buy; users can thus browse the site where the available items are on display and can add them or remove them from the shopping cart whenever they want. Cookies allow the content of the shopping cart to depend on the user’s actions.
In Spain, its use is regulated by the E-Commerce and Information Society Services Act (LSSI) and in keeping with Article 22.2 of European Directive 2009/136/EC.
The Basque Maritime Forum uses cookies to recall users’ preferences and improve their user experience.
Service providers may use devices to store and recover data (including cookies) on the equipment of the service recipients.
The service providers will previously have had to provide clear and comprehensive information on the use of those devices.
That information must include the purposes of the processing of the obtained data.
Once this information has been facilitated, users will have to give their consent.
When it is technically possible and effective, the consent of the recipient to accept the data processing may be provided by means of the appropriate parameters of the browser or of other applications.
For this procedure to be valid, users will have to proceed to configure those parameters, authorising the entry of cookies, at the time of installing or updating the browser by means of an express action for that purpose.
This new system will not prevent the possible storage or technical access for the sole purpose of sending a communication using an electronic communications network.
Neither will it prevent, insofar as it is strictly necessary, the possible storage or access to provide a service of the information society expressly requested by the recipient.
One of the most discussed aspects regarding the amendments of this Directive is the new regulation of the use of cookies to monitor the behaviour of the online user for commercial purposes. The new wording of Article 22 of LSSI authorises the installation of cookies on the terminals of the recipients only “provided that they have given their consent after having been provided with clear and comprehensive information on their use”.
According to this reform of the Directive, the consent to accept cookies must be free, specific and informed.
All browsers currently include a feature in their administration menu to manage, administer and eliminate cookies so users always have control over them. However, blocking their receipt implies reducing the browsing on many websites and can cause the pages do not load or do not facilitate browsing on certain websites; therefore, their use is necessary in the majority of cases.
In order to prevent any type of cookie being installed on computers, links to instructions on how to do so in the main browsers are included as reference below:
Additionally, if the user wishes to only avoid the installation of Google Analytics cookies, Google provides a tool to do so and with can download through the following link: